MAN 336 Midterm: Culture Types
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Outcome-oriented cultures: a culture that emphasizes achievement, results, and action as important values. Stable cultures: companies that are stable are predictable, rule- oriented, and bureaucratic. People-oriented cultures: these organizations value fairness, supportiveness, and respecting individual rights. Team-oriented cultures are collaborative and emphasize cooperation among employees. A culture that is characterized in the ocp framework as emphasizing precision and paying attention to details. Walt disney created a strong culture which survives today: Class notes: culture becomes bigger than person and so it survives. Requires that underlying culture be very strong and tied to founder. Can be a liability during a merger as each separate culture must merge together. Class notes: jobs can become exhausting such as having to be happy all the time. Class notes: early values, goals, and assumptions should be in the middle. The social activism of ben and jerry"s was instilled in the company because founders strongly believed in these issues.
